pastebinit on Debian don't give you paste.debian.net/id-number if username is longer than 10 characters

[Malin Bruland]

pastebinit dosen't return paste-ID-link when username is longer than 10 characters.

when username has 11 or more characters, you get this in return

http://paste.debian.net/

According to their webpage, I get this error when trying to manually paste something with my username

Could not add your entry to the paste database:

Invalid format for name (no special chars, max 10 chars)

when username has 10 or less characters, you get an actual paste in return:

http://paste.debian.net/163493/

the solution should be something like

if paste is paste.debian.net
    then username shoud be shortned to 10 characters, by deleting any character bigger than, or 11 characters.

A workaround for this, is to add the .pastebinit.xml file to the longusernameuser's home folder. Within the file, add this lines:

<pastebinit>
    <author>shorter-than-10-characters-name</author>
</pastebinit>

save and run pastebinit again

your username will be replaced with any word/name shorter or equal to 10 characters

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Note that the username can also be replaced at the time of the paste with -a.

Anyway, a branch to implement the missing logic (ideally through configuration rather than an hardcoded check for paste.debian.net) would certainly be appreciated!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pastebinit - 1.6.2-1

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pastebinit (1.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream relase (1.6.1). GitHub Changelog:
    * Revert "Add NoneType handling/fix for Debian (Closes: #1023962)"
    * Default to empty string in os.environ.get for potentially empty
      env vars
      (Closes: #1023962)

 -- Thomas Ward <email address hidden> Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:33:59 -0500